In the process of changing the hEWS/AXRIS/MEXRIS hOU places,
it occurred to me that--as I indicated in the previous post--
AF' hOU and EN hWi would also fit into this category.

In thinking about this, I remembered that sometimes we have
AF' hHS, which seems clearly--as BAGD points out--to be the
ellision of hWRAS or hHMERAS, as it occurs in Col 1:6 (AF'
hHS hHEMERAS...). In the same article (BAGD sv, "APO," II.
2.c.) they say: "AF' hOU (sc.--like X., Cyr. 1,2,13--
XRONOU...)...". The text from Xenophon (Cyropadeadia,
1,2,13 [Loeb, Xenophon V, Cyr I, p. 20) reads: AF' hOU D'
AN ECELQWSI XRONOU hOUTOI AU PENTE KAI EIKOSIN ETH
DIAGOUSIN WDE, speaking of the educational experience of
10 year old boys after they have been promoted (ECERXOMAI)
from the boy's (EFHBOS) to the men's (TELIOS ANQRWPOS)
classification.

Based on this comparison, was the original uncompressed
phrase AXRIS hOU XRONOU ? or hEWS hOU XRONOU ? rather than
AXRIS XRONOU hWi ? And how does this evidence fit with the
uses of MEXRI TOUTOU and ES hO found in the Herodotus and
Thucydides ??